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EDITORIAL

I’ll tell you - the computer Yield has been changing so much, it’s really hard to
keep up. Last month I told you of Sir Clive’s financial difficulties, this month I’m going
to tell you of his rebirth (we hope!). John Bloxham has sent me a clip from the Nov. issue
of Your Computer describing the goings on in Europe. The article is reproduced in the JB
Corner. Basically, here’s the scoop: the Dixon Co. has bought out all of Sinclair's
surplus ULs and Spectrum Pluses, with the stipulation that Sinclair would not launch any
new machines in England untill after Christmas. In the mean time, he has launched the
spectrum 126 in Spain, which is really a souped up Spectrum Plus with a-128K mode and a
new operating system. The 12b is really just a base, however, for two new machines which
Sir Clive has announced - the Pandora and the Enigma. The Pandora is a portable based on
the Spectrum, utilizing the old microdrives. The Enigma, on the other hand, is a full
fledged business machine complete with a color monitor, dual 3.5" disks, printer, bundled
software oh Pun, and 1024K (one megabyte) of RAM. It will be based on the Motorola. 68008,
and aimed at the Amiga, the Macintosh, and the Atari ST. The launch date is set for next
year, and the price is estimated at '500 to 'luuu.

Well, oack an the home front, I must tell you all about the problems which I have
been having. Lately I've gotten into the bad habit of shorting out 2068’s with
peripherals. It is for this reason that 1 decided to find out a little more about the
repair facilities available tor or orphaned machine. As 1 mentioned in a previous issue,
a company called TS Connections will repair your 2068 for about $45. When I spoke to them
over the phone, they claimed that Timex turned all their repair facilities over to them.
And so, I sent my machine out to them hoping to get it repaired. Well, I gat it back, but
there was a note attached saying it was beyond repair since the SCLA chip was blown and
they couldn’t replace it. So I bought a new one, which I soon reduced to a smoldering heap
of silicon. And then there was the third unit which I bought and soon ruined. This time,
I tent it back to TIMEX, since it was still under warranty, and, lo and behold, three
weeks later I received a working computer froe them.

So, I have learned the following from this experiencei first of all, it would seea
that TS Connection’s claim to be the recipient of TIMEX** repair facilities is an outright

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lie. becona, TIMEX will honor its warranties on any new 2068s. Third, TIMEX will repair
damaged 2068s with expired warranties for no more than $3u, according to the person I
spoke to at TIMEX. So, take heart if you need a repair job done. TIMEX came through for
me, and in a reasonable amount of time. I have sent my other two units out; I’ll let you
know how I make out with them when 1 get them back.

As you know, there are a lot of third party outfits supporting the Time:; Sinclair
computers. Line of them is Simulision. They offer programs for the lOuO and Zx machines.

1 nnir catalogue is reproduced in this issue. I also received the latest catalogue from
Sunset Electronics. Tms is a very complete catalogue including hardware and software.
I’ve included their prics list. I"he English Micro Connection has a catalogue of hardware
and software tor the Spectrum which they claim are compatable with our 20b8s. I'd be
careful there, however, especially with hardware. Finally, don’t forget the Aerco drives
which are available from 21st Century Electronics. They’re really progressing with this
setup:; it’s now possible to get a dual drive system running with double sided, quad
density drives, giving nearly a megabyte of storage. 21st Century is also offering a new
music program called Noteworthy. I know it has a corny title, but it really is a
noteworthy program. While I don’t have a copy yet, I did get a chance to meet with the
author and fool around with the program. It allows you to enter pieces by placing the
notes rioht on the staff. There is a metronome for precise timing, and up to four voices.
A must, have for any musicians out there!

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s and information through the newsletter and within the group. Needless to say, I
1 happy to read this. Supposedly, the whole point of this users group is to
the possibility of communication amongst the members through an exchange of
s and information. The newsletter should be the media for communtication, not just
o-maqazine. Therefore, I urge you all, especially those of you who requested user
e to sent in any thing interesting which you come across, whether it’s a short

program which you’

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Latest in the continuing saga of esoteric projects is a water
level sensor for sensing when a tank is full of distilled
water and a pump should be shut off. One thing to be kept m
mind is that the water is very pure and therefore has very
low conductivity, and also is to be kept that way. To me
this seemed to rule out any kind of direct sensing electrodes
since contamination was to be avoided. This could be over¬
come perhaps by using platinum or gold for sensing electrodes
I realize now, but at the time an optical sensor seemed more
ideal. It would be a lot easier if water was black. When
a cylinder is filled with water it takes on more of a lens-,
like appearance, and it concentrates light lika a lens. This
was used effectively to sense the water level in.a glass tube
by placing a photodarlington transistor on one side of the
tube and a small light bulb on the other side. When water
would rise in the tube the photosensor would recieve a much
increased dose of photons and would shut off a vacuum pump

that was filling a tank. Also it would open a solenoid valve
that would allow air into the tank so it could be emptied.
This valve was normally open except for the time during pump¬
ing. The circuit includes a 555 timer IC used as a latch.
This is to provide a lock-out of further signals once the
water level signal triggers the "off" function. All of which
means that once the water level reaches the sensor level the
vacuum shuts off and does not come back on if the water level
drops. The circuit is shown below.

The NPN power transistor I chose was a 2N3055* but practically
any with sufficient power handling capacity will work. The
resistors around the relays were chosen to provide proper
current through the solenoid and relay I happened to have
laying around, and may have to be adjusted for different ones.
Although not shown on the diagram it is customary to place a
reverse biased diode across relay and solenoid coils that are
operated with DC voltages. Sometimes these are built into the
relay. They supposedly protect the driving transistor•

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The Zip BASIC compiler will change some of your BASIC programs
into machine code. I say some because the chances are that you will
need to write programs especially for compiling, program requirements
are: no real numbers

single dimensional arrays only
one letter variable names only

no strings

no line numbers greater than 4999
and the program must be relatively small*. (l*ve only run out

of space because of too many variables, but! the compiler
takes a good share of the memory) •

In spite of these limitations many useful programs can be compiled,
and the speed of the compiled program is considerably greater than that
of an interpreted one(generally over a hundred times faster). The
instruction booklet provides subroutines for RND (an integer format),
INKEY$ (returns the ASCII value of the key pressed), STICK, and BEEP
functions, no of which are directly supported by the compiler.

The program takes two passes at the BASIC program, during the first
pass the listing is displayed, along with any errors Zip finds. If there
are no errors, the second pass compiles it to machine language, and
tells you the starting address for executing the program. Zip takes
its time compiling the programs, however, this is excuseable since
you should only use the compiler once on any one program (having
developed it with the BASIC interpreter). Is Zip worth the price?
Certainly it is if you don't mind typing in your programs again to
fit Zip's requirements, or if you need the speed of a compiled
BASIC (which is still slower than hand writen machine code, but
much easier to write). Or, if you just want to play with a
compiler, then it might be worth while. It does have one curious
characteristic though, it won't work with HOT Z-AROS (the cartridge
form of HOT Z), it just gives an out of data error, and stops. The
authors do warn against using it with extra hardware installed, but
it's stange (Zip does work with both the disk drive and printer I

One last thing, I'm working on a FORTH disassembler/debugger,
I*ve got the disassembler working, but I'm not quite sure what
features to add into the debugger. So far it just acts as a single
stepper, without allowing you to do anything. I'd appreciate
any suggestions from any FORTH lovers among you.

HOOVER, which is claimin
£1,525,000 for work on Sir Cliv
Sinclair’s C5 electric trike, ha
closed the assembly line until “ou
differences with Sir Clive ar
resolved.”

It stopped all work on the C
this week and switched the 1
workers to making washing ms
chines at its factory at Merthy
Tydfil, South Wales,

Hoover, which assembles the C
for Sinclair Vehicles, said it was n
longer prepared to continue prt
duction because of debts and ther
were no plans to restart the work

Hoover took out a writ mor
than a month ago against Si
Clive, claiming £1,525,000, pin
interest, for work done since la*
November. But that writ has nt
been served and talks are contini
ing between Hoover and Sincla
Vehicles.

Sir Clive predicted when h
launched the C5 in January the
100,00(1 would be sold in the fin
year. So far sales are little mor
than a tenth of that. In Apri
production was cut from 1,000
week to 100.

Sinclair Vehicles was backed b
about £7 million of Sir Clive’s ow
money. He was diverted fror
producing an electric car as th
opening project by the possibilit
of exploiting new EEC regulation
through a £400 trike that could b
used by anyone over 14 without
licence, insurance or tax.

Sinclair Vehicles said there ha
been export'inquiries from Europ*
the United States, and the Fe
East, mainly from holiday resoi
firms and hiring outfits.

Last week, Mr Robert Maxwel
the publisher, decided to withdra
his £12 million offer for control <
Sir Clive’s separate computer con
pany, Sinclair Research. Sincla
Research said this week that th
£10 million contract to suppl
home computers and miniatui
TVs to the Dixons retail chai
meant that there was no longer
need for total refinancing of th
company.

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NEWS.

Quite a lot of news this time. As
Newsletter the Sinclair deal with
through. However, all is not lost,
mountains of unsold computers,
e 1 ectr on i c/photograph i c shops - D i x
million pounds worth of goodies,
selling them with a data recorder.
£139, plus, for a further £60, a Si
of pocket T.V.s, have you seen the
a 2 inch liquid crystal screen? It’
here at the same price as the Sine!

•Joe mentioned in the last
Robert Maxwe 1 1 has fallen
You remember that SRL have
well, a national chain of
ons - have bought up about 10
mostly Spec tr urns, and are
joystick and software for
nclair pocket T.V. (Talking

new one from Radio Shack with
s just about to go on sale
air. Interesting.) -

ft 1 so, the pr i ce of the UL has been cut i n ha 1 f to £1 5*9. I rn
not sure whether this is recognition that the machine has failed
to become the glittering success it was supposed to be, or just
the fact that SRL need a few readies in the bank.

Rumour seems to be hardening into fact about the imminent
launch of a 128K Spectrum, although few details are known about
the hardware spec. One magazine here has shown a photograph of
what it says is a prototype machine inside a standard Spectrurn +
keyboard, they have been passed out to software houses to get
some programs up and running. It is not clear whether the final
machine will be fully portable, have a built in microdrive or
flat screen display, or what, though existing software should
run on the new machine. I 7 11 keep you posted, but an interesing
situation has developed here. It is likely that Dixons would
have some sort of contractual undertaking from SRL that
they (Sinclair Research Limited) would not introduce a new

Spectrum whilst Dixons have thousands of the old one to sell.
Surely, though, SRL would like to launch the new machine before
Christmas, which is approaching at a rapid rate of knots. Also,
the new machine will probably be priced somewhere between £130
£200. so there could be two Sinclair machines at about the same

price - I can 7 t see that situation lasting..cheaper QL?

we sha11 see.

On the software front there is an exciting new graphics
p r o g r am from Ox ford C o rnpu te r Pub 1 i sh i ng just out. Now I k n o w
that we all love our Speccys/2068s but I 7 rn sure that, like rne,
you have probably drooled over the OEM graphics on a Macintosh,
or the new Atari machines. Drool no more, faithful Sinclair

freaks! Now you can have GEM "type windows? icons? pul 1 down
menus? a little arrow that moves around the screen with one of
those mouse thirties on your desk? etc. The program is '-a 1 led
Art Studio and can be used with a mouse? joystick or the
keyboard. 1 7 11 let you have a review as soon as I can get hold
of a copy.

PROGRAMMING.

One thing I am always telling people is that Sinclair Basic
does al low you to create interesting displays with only a f*=:w
lines of program. Here is another ’quickie 7 that slowly draws a
very solid looking sphere out of wavy lines. It takes a while to
run as there is a lot of calculation going on? ..but let the
computer worry about that. Here it is:

10 INPUT "Size? ";s

20 FOR a=0 TO 125.7 STEP .03

30 LET y=88+s*SIN (a*.95)*C0S a

40 LET x=128+s*SIN a

50 PLOT x ? y

60 NEXT a

Input any number up to 87 for the size. If you have a graphics

printer this is a nice one to print out and stick on the wall.

You wi11 have gathered from these articles that I am fond of
short programs that do surprising things. I found this next one
rather weird - I hope it works on your machine. Take a look at
the table of System Variables towards the back of your manual.
System variables are addresses in memory that hold infoi - rncitiQM

pertinent to the operation of the computer. Take a look at

address 23681 and you will see it says "not used" - hee? hee?
how little they know! There is a very interesting effect if you
POKE this address with the right numbers. Try this:

10 FOR n=64 TO 87

20 POKE 23681?n

30 LF'RINT "SINCLAIR SPECTRUM"

40 NEXT n
50 PAUSE 0

Note that line 30 starts with LPRINT but no printer should be
connected - I told you it was weird! The. PAUSE in line 50 is to
stop the OK report spoiling the bottom of the display.
Experiment with the numbers in line 10 to vary the effect.

Did you know that you can use INPUT wi thout actual ly entering
a variable? and that INPUT AT allows you to do a partial screen
clear from the bottom of the display. Try this little demo
program:

10 FOR n = 0 TO 21: PRINT n: NEXT n
20 LET x=33-PEEK 23688
30 LET y=23-PEEK 23689
40 PRINT AT 0? 0;

50 INPUT "Clear how many lines? ";n
60 INPUT AT n+l?0;

70 PRINT AT y ? x;

Line 10 prints something down the screen. Lines 20 and 30 save
the co-ordinates of the print position then line 40 moves the
print position to the top of the screen out of the way. Line 50
asks how many lines in the upper screen are to be cleared. Line
60 does the business and line 70 restores the print position. If
you didn't move the print position out of the way the program
would stop with the scroll? prompt if INPUT AT reached the
currerit print position.

SPECTRUM

WHAT Do You get if you cross a mouse with
a telephone?

Good taste, the Animal Liberation Front, and
the Official Secrets Act prevent me from telling
you what I have seen in the Government’s
genetic engineering laboratories. All I can say
is that Sinclair has come close with the weird
numeric keypad which is the Spectrum 128’s
most distinctive feature.

A white 128 badge and an external
al uminium heatsink — that looks like it might
be a constructivist memorial to all those who
perished in the computer wars — are the only
other signs that this is a Spectrum Plus Plus.
The 128 goes on sale in Spain now, four months
before it hits these shores, but if you are
thinking of popping over to the Costa
Investronica to bring back a new Sinclair and
an autumn tan don’t bother.

Devil worship

If you wait till the U.K. launch next spring
the 128 will cost around £150 whereas a
Spanish Sinclair will set you back £100 more,
including tax but not including a dictionary to
translate error messages such as “Entero fuera
de rango”. So why is Sir Clive making good
old blighty play second fiddle (or maybe that
should be Fidel, since Investronica plans to
export to Latin America) to Spain?

In short this summer’s financial problems
have forced Sinclair to sell his soul to the Devil,
or rather Dixons. They agreed to take the
mountainous drifts of surplus QLs and
Spectrum Pluses off his hands if he agreed not
to launch any new products here, which might
damage their sales, until well after Christmas.
But Sir Clive still desperately needed to show
he had new products on the way. Hence the
Spanish 128 deal.

A close inspection of the 128 shows that the
Plus keyboard has survived intact apart from
a few cosmetic changes made to satisfy new
Spanish government standardisation regulations
— the word video in black out of white to show
true video and reversed on the inverse video
key for instance, the Mic and Ear sockets have
been moved from the back of the Plus to the

left hand side next to a new RS-232 port to take
the interfacing out of connecting up a printer,
or modem to your Sinclair.

The RS-232 claims to double up as a MIDI
music connector. But then what’s in a name?
Everyone knows that Sinclair is a corruption
of St Clare — the patron saint of televisions —
but no-one takes seriously Sir Flat Screen
Clive’s claim to be a major producer of bent
tellies.

The whole point of MIDI is supposed to be
a single standard to make interfacing music
machines and micros easy so you can control
instruments from the computer, modify pices
of music and interpret them on screen. So the
128’s non standard MIDI connector will have
to be carefully examined on a full production
machine before it can be recommended to
musicians.

At the back the expansion slot is still where
it was and all peripherals are still compatible
except perhaps those that initialise system
variables. An RGB/composite video port has
now taken the place of the Mic and Ear sockets.
Because the 128 incorporates an AY-38910
sound chip like the Amstrad et al the internal
loudspeaker that was happy enough beeping
and purring its way through the death march
which every other Spectrum game features,
shows its shortcomings. Now like other micros
a new modulator feeds the TV socket sound as
well as vision. At last turning up the noise is
a simple matter of sliding up the TV volume
button.

Search as you may you still will not find a
joystick port on the 128 — an unforgivable
omission — although some software houses will
doubtless use the 128’s numeric keypad as a
touch pad controller.

This numeric keypad is a strange looking
creature, like a calculator attached to the front
of the computer by a curly telephone cable. If
it had a track ball in the base to allow you to
spin a pointer around on screen you would call
it a mouse — but it doesn’t so we’ll call it a
hamster. You can use this 15 button rodent as
a simple calculator which displays the answers
on the screen or for entering numeric data into
programs — it might make typing in Your
Computer listings a little less tiresome-or in 128
mode as a full screen editor. At last you can
edit programs at will including renumbering
sending the cursor straight to the area that needs
correction.

When you turn on the machine it defaults to
128 mode with a white or blue cursor instead
of all the “Ks” and “Es” of the original. If you
enter the command Spectrum it changes to 48K
mode without losing the contents of memory
but the only way to make it revert once again
to 128 is by resetting — losing everything.

Basic programs can transfer from one mode
to the other easily. If you Peek 80000 in 128
mode you will still get an out of range message
because the additional 64K of memory is only
accessible from machine code. The 32K Rom
includes the old 16K Spectrum as well as the
] separate 128 operating system. The extra 64K

Ram is paged in 16K blocks.

Memory maps are already in the hands of
those software houses that have not had proto¬
types. Ocean is already demonstrating a 128
version of Match Day which takes advantage
of the improved sound with cheering crowds,
referee’s whistle and so on. Supertest 128 is also
near completion as well as the load-in-one
version of the three pan NeverEnding story

128 COMPARISONS

□Commodore 128. Better graphics,
sound, software. £275.

□Amstrad 6128. includes CP/M, monitor
and disc. Less games. £300.

□Enterprise 128. Includes word
processor, Joystick. Almost no software.
£250.

□Atari 130XE. Brilliant games but not as
many as for Spectrum. Still tops for
sound and vision. £170.

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friends at
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a look at the
Spectrum 128
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epic. Ocean’s David Collier says he has had no
loading problems with the Sinclair 128 unlike
the Commodore 128 which has a variant of the
6502 processor “which is not as robust” as that
in the 64. Ocean has now rewritten its fast
loader to avoid crashing the Commodore 128.

The Sinclair 128 has the same ULA as the

A Play command gives access to the new sound only inspect at the headquarters of Investronica
facilities. Text can be stored as separate pages in Madrid but this is not a one-off special aimed
by storing in the form of variables — AS, BS only at Spain.

and so on. There may be some changes before it appears

^ . - - on the British market next spring but despite

Spring OllGnSIV© its f au it s the 128 looks like it will be a strong

Of course the machine we have seen is still base model for Sinclair’s new 1986 model range

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NEXT YEAR'S Enigma will birSincraitS firsts
Mega-machine — literally. Sir Clive believes]
that 1024K of Ram, one Megabyte, is the
minim um needed to compete with the likes off
Atari’s ST and Commodore’s Amiga. |
He has also bowed tot the inevitable andi
—abandonned the Mlcrodrtvts f&rsrpair of built-l
in 3.5 inch disc drives. But the portable!
Spectrum-based Pandora also planned for early
next year will still use Microdrives Jojkeep _
down costs and weight. If Sinclair goes ahead
with a portable QL that too may stay with the
stringy floppies.

-The^Enigme ts plaB n e 4 fo r launch in M a y -

’86 somewhere in the vague £500 — £1,000
price band. It will have a version of the Psion
Quill,; Abacus, Archive and Easel suite of
programs but on Rom rather than the QL r sT
Microdrive cartridges. The Enigma will also-
have a full Window, Icon, Mouse environment,;

_probably Gem _ as used ojLthejVgricot^si5C.el

Digita| Research has been having talks with;
Sinclair for some time and has publicly claimed!
that Gem could be ported straight across to thej
QL-. T|be big question is whether Sinclair canr
compete with the Supermicros without going;
for a full 16-bit Motorola 68000 like the Amiga,;
Macintosh and ST rather! than the cut-down!

— 6SOOS m15e ql;

The I Enigma will be sold as a complete
package; computer, software, two drives, 1
mouse, colour monitor and printer. It mightl
also develop with the addition of a phone and!
communications into a colour replacement forj
the Sinclair developed monochrome ICL One;

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Sinclair is also working on a "personal com¬
municator” a £^9 cigarette packet-sized port¬
able phone that Would allow you to make and
take calls on the already established cellular
radio network a» any time or place.(With the
128, Pandora and Enigma all lined up for launch
in the first half of next year there would seem
- to b e no plac e fo r the- much - rum o ur e d Q L ~2~
as such. This n6w seems to have gfown into
the Enigma. L j

Sinclair’s plans) look ambitious at a time when
the company is! making 20 of its [120 staff
redundant and such senior personnel as Nigel
Searle and Robb Wilmot are being kicked off
the Sinclair board. Th e company, is aisn losing-

evelopment worK on new computers usea ioj
be concentrated and moving the entire opera-]
tion td Milton Hall, country mansion of of

Sinclair’s Metalab., .|_. __|

Nigel Searle had been head of Sinclair’s com-j
puter side before he was sent on a none too
successful trip to America to boost Sinclair sales

board but stays on as Sinclair’s top dog in thei
States. Robb Wilmot, Mr ICL, long-time asso-j
date of Sir Clive was brought in six monthst
ago to]develop the Siriclair/Catt wafer scale]
technology which promised to produce failsafe |
single-chip mega computers by the 1990’s. Now]

Can Sinclair’s Enigma be ST, Amiga beater?

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2254 TARAVAL STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116

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SIMULUSION, BOX 2382, LA JOLLA, CA 92038-2382

October 1, 1985

Oear Users Group members.

For five years we have offered a line of home and
entertaimnent software for Timex/Sinclair computers. Mow,
our location has changed. Do you have our current address?
(Its given above). Our old (Lemon Grove) address will be
tfalid for the rest of the year, but please make a note of
the change. Thanks.

You may want to glance at the CLOSEOUT LIST on the
other side of this letter. We're offering the remaining
stocks of many of our packages for just $.99 or $1.79. Also
blank cassettes and supplies.

Here's a special offer just for users group members:

Our most popular package. Fantastic Mus ic Nachine ,
was recently offered for $9.00 in a review in the
August issue of Family Computing, (pg. 71). It's
yours for $4.39 . But only while supplies remain!

Please circulate our catalog among your members, and if
you need more, let me know. I'd be happy to send a catalog
to anyone who writes.

Si nee rely,

Conan La rlotte
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